Village at Full Moon

Painting by Joos de Momper

Village at Full Moon

Artist| Joos de Momper
Year| 1620s[1]
Catalogue| O 36
Medium| Tempera on panel
Dimensions| 57 cm × 88 cm (22.4 in × 34.6 in)
Location| National Gallery, Prague

Village at Full Moon (Czech: Vesnice za úplňku) is a tempera-on-panel painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. It was painted in the early 17th century, possibly in the 1620s,[1] and is now in the National Gallery in Prague.[2][3]

## Painting

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The painting offers a view of a Flemish village under a full moon. The moon is shining on the town from an open spot in the cloudy sky. In the foreground, two horsemen trot their horses towards a bridge on the bottom right, which a family of three is crossing. A monk is feeding his donkey on the bottom left, while two other barefooted and bearded men talk closely to each other to his right. In this painting, Momper regulated the light so as to illuminate the scene from two points and different sources. From the right there pours in moonlight, while a fiery glow radiates on the other side.[3]

The figures in the painting may have been realized by Jan Brueghel the Elder, a frequent collaborator of de Momper.[3][4]

## References

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1. ^ a b Akira Kofuku; Toshiharu Nakamura (1990). Bruegel and Netherlandish Landscape Painting from the National Gallery Prague. Asahi Shimbun. p. 153.
2. ^ "Village at Full Moon". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
3. ^ a b c "Village under the Full Moon". National Gallery Prague. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
4. ^ "Market and Washing Place in Flanders". Museum of Prado. Retrieved 22 September 2020.

## Further reading

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* "Village at Full Moon". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
* Národní galerie v Praze (1984). Národní galerie v Praze, Volume 1. Odeon.
* Lubomír Slavíček (2000). Flemish Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries: Illustrated Summary Catalogue 1/2. Prague: National Gallery in Prague. ISBN 978-80-7035-243-4.

## External links

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* Description of the painting and high quality picture thereof at the National Gallery of Prague
* Painting at the Web Gallery of Art

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Joos de Momper

Paintings|

* River Landscape with a Boar Hunt
* Mountainous Landscape with a Bridge and Four Horsemen
* Monk's Hermitage in a Cave
* Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
* Landscape with the Temptation of Christ
* Village at Full Moon
* Mountain Scene with Bridges
* Minerva's Visit to the Muses
* Tobias' Journey
* Dune Landscape with Travelers and Cattle
* Landscape with Grotto and a Rider
* Landscape with Grotto
* Mountain Landscape with Campers and a Broken Tree
* Landscape with a Mountain Pass
* Mountain Landscape with Castle
* Large Mountain Landscape
* Landscape with Sea and Mountains
* Mountain Landscape (de Momper, Kunsthistorisches)
* Mountainous Landscape with Figures and a Donkey

Collaborations with
Jan Brueghel the Elder|

* Excursion in the Countryside of Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia
* The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in the Mariemont Park
* Summer Landscape with Harvesters
* Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall
* Mountain Landscape with Pilgrims in a Grotto Chapel
* Flemish Market and Washing Place
* A Farm
* Landscape with Skaters
* Landscape
* Life in the Countryside
* Grotto Landscape with a Hermitage

Drawings|

* Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset

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